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- Message-ID: <REXXLIST%92082801343844@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU>
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.rexx
- Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 22:32:04 PDT
- Sender: REXX Programming discussion list <REXXLIST@UGA.BITNET>
- From: Dave Gomberg <GOMBERG@UCSFVM.BITNET>
- Subject: Re: Blanks, REXX, and portability...
- In-Reply-To: Message of Fri,
- 28 Aug 1992 02:13:58 LCL from <anders@LISE3.LISE.UNIT.NO>
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- On Fri, 28 Aug 1992 02:13:58 LCL Anders Christensen said:
- >In article <REXXLIST%92082716163624@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU> Dave Gomberg
- ><GOMBERG@UCSFVM.BITNET> writes:
- >> If there is no consensus among users as to which characters are
- >> equivalent to blanks, then only the blank character should be so
- >> implemented."
- >
- >I am not really sure how to interpret this. As long as "users",
- >"consensus" and "be implemented" (implemented where? and by whom?) is
- >rather unspecified, I think that sentence should be left out.
-
- A standard mainly tells implementers what to implement, and to a lesser
- extent, users what kind of code to write. If users don't know certain
- funny characters are spaces, the implementers in that environment should
- not implement them that way. Seems perfectly straightforward to me.
-